[Fsf-friends] Project Shiksha: Microsoft widens presence

[Arun M]

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2003/05/14/stories/2003051402841600.htm

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 World software major Microsoft is acquiring a more visible presence in
India in areas outside the pale of its everyday business. Six months
after Bill Gates' sanctioned a Rs. 2,000 crore investment over three
years in social and software development sectors, senior company
officials today asserted that the plans were firmly on track.

Kerala and Uttaranchal, they said, would be the first two beneficiary
States of project Shiksha =97 its plan to accelerate computer literacy by
inculcating IT skills to over 80,000 teachers and 35 lakh students.
Kerala for its obvious high literacy rate and Uttaranchal for the
pleasant experience of `Teach the future' programme conducted jointly
with Intel.=20

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Seems that Kerala will become battleground again ;)
M$ is not going to have a very good time here.

arun.